Bug#513406: Possible oops during eeepc-laptop module init; kills ACPI hotkeys

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 06:36:47PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.26-1
> Forwarded: corentincj@iksaif.net, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Tags: patch
> 
> I was adjusting my EeePC 901's display brightness via Fn-F3 while it was
> starting up. By coincidence, it happened to be initialising the eeepc-laptop
> module, and an oops was logged. Investigation pointed to a NULL dereference;
> a case of use-before-init.
> 
> (I'm using 2.6.28.1 with eeepc-laptop compiled in, but inspection of the
> 2.6.26 source indicates that the problem is there too.)
> 
> Patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/28/262

Merged in SVN for next Lenny point update.

Cheers,
        Moritz